YA Fiction audiobooks

The Pearl Thief

By: Elizabeth Wein

Narrated by: Maggie Service

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family – Highland travellers who have been part of the... Read more

Girls in Love

By: Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by: Brigit Forsyth

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Ellie and her best friends Nadine and Magda, three teenage girls just starting Year Nine with a lot on their minds – mainly boys! Ellie is desperate to have a boyfriend. Magda and Nadine (both prettier and thinner) have boyfriends, but the closest she can get is Dopey Dan, who is younger and a real swot. Find out all her secrets, squirm... Read more

The 10pm Question

By: Kate de Goldi

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head: Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it? Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest... Read more

The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl

By: Melissa Keil

Narrated by: Roshelle Fong

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Alba is an aspiring comic-book artist, pastry enthusiast and eternal optimist. She thinks life in her tiny town is awesome (if predictable) and she never wants it to change. Unfortunately Alba’s just finished Year 12 – so the only thing she can predict is that everything’s going to change. Even so, Alba didn’t see the end of... Read more

Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf

By: Sonya Hartnett

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dying country town lives Satchel O'Rye, a young man fighting the future; Chelsea Piper, a young woman fighting the past; and a long-lost creature that can teach them both the art of survival. Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf is a shimmering, ultimately joyful novel, a story of journeying towards courage and freedom, of finding the will to live... Read more

Luna-C

By: Jutta Goetze

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Luna-C is madness for music, for performing. Luna-C is two friends, one dream, one man. It's an obsession and a gift, a sacrifice and a celebration. Luna-C is the story of a band, and the people in it. Read more

On the Jellicoe Road

By: Melina Marchetta

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah... Read more

Kiss

By: Jacqueline Wilson

Narrated by: Jacqueline Wilson

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and, deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'd end up married to each other. They even have a a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone. But as they become older, things are starting to... Read more

Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

By: Robin Klein

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the summer holidays and 11-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inner-city suburb, is bored and unhappy in his confined world. By chance he meets Angie - beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not... Read more

Mates, Dates and Mad Mistakes

By: Cathy Hopkins

Narrated by: Shirley Barthelmie

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Izzie is restless, and eager to be treated like an adult. So she decides it's time to make some changes. But the new Izzie comes with new problems. First, there is Josh Harper, an older, cute but wild boy. Then there is her mother, who is opposed to every part of the 'new Izzie'. And then there is one night at Nesta's house, when Izzie decides... Read more

Drift

By: Penni Russon

Narrated by: Melissa Eccleston

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Undine thinks she could be happy living in a world where Stephen is still alive. Back in the real world, Trout could be happy too - as long as he doesn't think about Undine's disappearance, or why her shadow appears in his photographs. Phoenix is now in town, a drifter, passing through with his conjuring tricks. But they can't keep drifting... Read more

Borrowed Light

By: Anna Fienberg

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Callisto May knows a lot about planets. She could name all the moons of Jupiter, or tell you the dimensions of the Great Red Spot, but she doesn't know much about love. She's so used to pleasing other people that she has lost track of how to be herself. And now there's no one close enough to help: her boyfriend is way out of reach; her mother is... Read more

Liberator

By: Richard Harland

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Col and Riff led the oppressed Filthies to victory, but now the revolution on their mountain-sized juggernaut is falling apart. A saboteur strikes, and suspicion and paranoia reign. Will Riff deny her love and brand Col a traitor? Can anyone stop the extremists taking over? And can they defeat the Imperialist juggernauts massing for war? Read more

One Step

By: Andrew Daddo

Narrated by: Andrew Daddo

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Dylan is struggling. He’s struggling with the acne that has declared war on his face, struggling with his pushy younger sister, with his nagging mum and his dad who never has time for him anymore, struggling with his old phone-me-down and struggling with his constant preoccupation with girls, and what might happen if he manages to snag... Read more

Burning for Revenge

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When you're on your knees there's only one thing to do ... stand up again! Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They have felt its hot breath. They have been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back. Now it's time to come out fighting. Now they really are burning for revenge ... Read more

The Cunning Man

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Shirley Barthelmie

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Finn's not at all sure about the Salt House. Overlooking Westwater Bay, it brings back all her nightmare fears of drowning. Of the ghosts of the dead reaching for her. And Westwater is dangerous. Countless seafarers have drowned here, their ships lost - broken on the vicious Viper Rocks. Lured by the wrecker's false lights, summoned by the dark... Read more

Mates, Dates and Sleepover Secrets

By: Cathy Hopkins

Narrated by: Shirley Barthelmie

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Theresa Joanne (T.J. to her mates) is having a difficult year. First her best friend moves away then classmate Wendy appears to have it in for her. Plus there's the problem with boys. They treat her like a mate and never seem to notice that she's a girl. When Lucy befriends T.J. things start to look up. But will Nesta and Izzie also accept her?... Read more

Cell 7

By: Kerry Drewery

Narrated by: Rosie Jones

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A world where justice and the fate of those accused of murder is decided by the public, but has moved on from the Roman Gladiator 'thumbs up or thumbs down' public vote, to a public vote by telephone. If you are voted innocent you are set free; if you are voted guilty you are committed to death by electric chair. Those awaiting their sentence... Read more

The Spider Goddess

By: Tara Moss

Narrated by: Luci Christian

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been two months since Pandora English left her small hometown to live with her mysterious great-aunt in a haunted mansion in Spektor – the fog-wreathed suburb of Manhattan that doesn’t appear on any map. With the help of Great-Aunt Celia and the handsome, but dead, Lieutenant Luke, Pandora is beginning to understand that she is heir to a... Read more

Princes

By: Sonya Hartnett

Narrated by: Francis Greenslade

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravel felt a shifty stab of panic. Indigo had an inquisitive new hobby. He'd taken to chopping things into pieces and this was not, Ravel felt, quite sane. More than that, it was rank with menace. Ravel wavered: 'Indigo,' he whispered, 'what are you doing?' In a dilapidated mansion overrun by rats, Ravel and Indigo Kesby have gone to war. In... Read more

Rolling Dice

By: Beth Reekles

Narrated by: Alicia Banit

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving from a small town in Maine to Florida, Madison grasps the opportunity to reinvent herself, to forget about those days of being a lonely, loser outcast, and jumps at the chance when the popular kids decide to take her under their wing. A hot boyfriend, parties, friends ... if only there wasn't the slight problem by the name of Dwight, a... Read more

Sparring with Shadows

By: Archimede Fusillo

Narrated by: Stephen Phillips

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

David Martinesi is a first-generation Italian Australian growing up in an inner-city suburb. He is fighting the shadows cast by his Italian upbringing, and this summer he is quietly waiting for change. Change comes when he is befriended by confident, street-wise Nathan. But tragedy comes too... Read more

Berserk

By: Ally Kennen

Narrated by: Jerome Pride

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifteen-year-old Chas finds a website asking people to write to prisoners on Death Row, he thinks it would be funny to get letters from a murderer. He writes to an inmate, pretending to be his mum. When his new pen pal is unexpectedly released, Chas' already problematic life spirals horribly out of control... Read more

Between the Lives

By: Jessica Shirvington

Narrated by: Matilda Reed

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect life or the perfect love. You choose. For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every twenty-four hours she ‘Shifts’, living each day twice. She has one life in Wellesley, Massachusetts... and another, completely different life in Roxbury, Boston. In one life she’s surrounded by glamorous friends and dresses in... Read more